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therapeutic | null |

As an adjective therapeutic

is of, or relating to therapy.

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

therapeutic

English

Alternative forms

* therapeutick (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, or relating to therapy.
  • Having a positive effect on the body or mind.
  • * Sir Thomas Browne
  • Therapeutic or curative physic.
  • * Isaac Watts
  • Medicine is justly distributed into prophylactic, or the art of preserving health, and therapeutic , or the art of restoring it.

    Synonyms

    * * *

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • Something that has no force or meaning.
  • (computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
  • (computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.
  • absent or non-existent
  • (mathematics) of the null set
  • (mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
  • (genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----